WhatsUp Gold - Low priced monitoring software
Rating: 6 out of 10
June 09, 2021
MG
Vetted Review
Verified User
6 years of experience
- Inexpensive
- Good support
- Accurate alerting
Cons
- Poor GUI
- Long configuration time
- Poor formatting for text alerts
Overview
What is Progress WhatsUp Gold?
WhatsUp Gold developed by Ipswitch (acquired by Progress Software May 2019) offers network performance monitoring and mapping. It supports core monitoring features, including automated workflows and network capacity planning, and monitors across hybrid environments.
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Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) Lets You Know What's Up
Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) is used to monitor network devices and endpoints and perform reporting and health checks regarding those devices. It all...
Joshua Van Camp
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Network Administration Supervisor
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Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) is currently used in the organization as a simple visualization of network element status (red-yellow-green) and alerts....
WhatsUp Gold - Low priced monitoring software
We use [Progress] Whatsup Gold [(formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold)] to monitor our server environment. We have a small farm of about 70 systems. While it has many features our p...
Matthew Garufi
Engineer - Information Technology
Enterprise Architect
Seniorlink, Inc
6 years of experienceWUG doesn't have many features but is a simple monitoring tool
WUG is used to monitor servers and network devices by our data center operations team.
What'sUp Gold - Great monitoring tool
We purchased What's Up Gold to monitor our server uptime but quickly realized the potential for monitoring and alerting on more aspects of our servers. We use it to send notif...
John Glenn
Manager - Information Technology
Network Operations Manager
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
3 years of experience
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What is Progress WhatsUp Gold?
WhatsUp Gold developed by Ipswitch (acquired by Progress Software May 2019) offers network performance monitoring and mapping. It supports core monitoring features, including automated workflows and network capacity planning, and monitors across hybrid environments.
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What is Progress WhatsUp Gold?
Progress WhatsUp Gold (WUG) is designed to help network admins find and fix network problems before end users notice. Its web-based interactive mapping interface lets users see up/down availability and performance at-a-glance for everything connected to a network, on premises and in the cloud.
WUG is an on-premises solution designed for IT enterprises and MSPs. The solution helps them to manage their IT infrastructure and network activities. It offers tools for discovering, visualizing and monitoring network devices, displaying connections between devices and monitoring network status.
WhatsUp Gold can automatically discover anything connected to the network, including physical servers, cloud resources, storage devices, VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines as well as wireless devices. It helps IT admins to view, analyze and manage cross-device connections from a single interactive map. Admins can also monitor application performance and network traffic and manage network device configuration and change control processes. Any network activity falling outside of customizable thresholds triggers alerts sent via email, web, SMS or Slack. Alerts can also trigger self-healing actions or PowerShell scripts.
Progress WhatsUp Gold Features
- Supported: Automated Discovery
- Supported: Network Mapping
- Supported: Server Monitoring
- Supported: Cloud Monitoring
- Supported: Wireless Monitoring
- Supported: Application Monitoring
- Supported: Bandwidth Monitoring
- Supported: Traffic Monitoring
- Supported: Virtualization Management
- Supported: Configuration Management
- Supported: Distributed Monitoring
- Supported: MSP Monitoring
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Progress WhatsUp Gold Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | North America, Latin America, EMEA, APAC, APJ |
| Supported Languages | English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese |
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WhatsUp Gold developed by Ipswitch (acquired by Progress Software May 2019) offers network performance monitoring and mapping. It supports core monitoring features, including automated workflows and network capacity planning, and monitors across hybrid environments.
Nagios Core, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), and PRTG Network Monitor are common alternatives for Progress WhatsUp Gold.
The most common users of Progress WhatsUp Gold are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Progress WhatsUp Gold Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 25% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 40% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 35% |
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Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) Lets You Know What's Up
Rating: 8 out of 10
July 23, 2021
JV
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- The depth of detail collected and accessible
- The interface is clean
- Upgrades are easy and straightforward
Cons
- More wizards for beginning the utilization of new functionalities
- The feature depth can be intimidating
More Bang for Your Buck
Rating: 10 out of 10
July 22, 2021
SR
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- Network L2/L3 discovery
- SNMP compatibility
- Network mapping
- Cloud visibility and monitoring
- Log aggregation
Cons
- Network performance monitoring
- User interface gets more cumbersome as the network elements increase
- Network mapping gets harder to use as the elements increase, and multilayered device elements cause confusion in the maps.
What'sUp Gold - Great monitoring tool
Rating: 9 out of 10
October 04, 2019
JG
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- Easy to install and manage.
- While it does require a whole server with IIS and a SQL db it is low impact on resources but still quick to respond.
- Great for quick notifications about a server going above a configured resource threshold. We don't have to look at every server's resource utilization individually anymore.
- Quick and easy to setup a service up or down notification.
Cons
- Sales staff can be a bit pushy in terms of selling more product than you need. This is not unique to What's Up but it can be a bit unwelcome once you have already purchased the product.
- Updates could be a little easier but overall not too bad. Once or twice we have had to start over with a new server when upgrading to a major numbered revision.
- IIS site can be a bit slow at times. This could just be our setup but I have noticed that it can be slow to respond during high traffic times. It does always respond and work properly but the wait time to move from screen to screen could be lower.
WUG doesn't have many features but is a simple monitoring tool
Rating: 1 out of 10
November 26, 2019
RP
Vetted Review
Verified User
10 years of experience
- Monitors update/down status of devices.
- Sends alerts after a designated period of time.
Cons
- It has no real feature set. It is just there to monitor device status up/down.